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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: dishonourable and vain, and at last achieved the end of purblind
Nature, the relentless immediacy of her desire, and held, far
short of happiness, Marion weeping and reluctant in my arms.
V
Who can tell the story of the slow estrangement of two married
people, the weakening of first this bond and then that of that
complex contact? Least of all can one of the two participants.
Even now, with an interval of fifteen years to clear it up for
me, I still find a mass of impressions of Marion as confused, as
discordant, as unsystematic and self-contradictory as life. I
think of this thing and love her, of that and hate her--of a
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